The Bridges at Toko-ri Quotes

“many generations against resolute foes who were determined to pull it down. Some of the phases of this war would no doubt be fought without military battles. Whole decades might pass in some kind of peace but more likely the desultory battles would stagger on and from each community some young men would be summoned to do the fighting.”
― James A. Michener, The Bridges at Toko-Ri

“In Malaya, in China, over Europe or in the jungle airports of the Amazon this word betokens final catastrophe: “Mayday, Mayday.”
― James A. Michener, The Bridges at Toko-Ri

“They were the ships of Task Force 77 and they had been sent to destroy the communist-held bridges at Toko-ri.”
― James A. Michener, The Bridges at Toko-Ri